The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07

matter. or substance is tnat winch
stands under, supports everything, is
the very essence of all being, and we
affirm that God alone is that. "There
is no intelligence in matter" for
Intelligence is omniscience, omnipre.
sence, and omAipotence. These are
God qualities, and cannot belong to
matter, which neither sees, knows,
hears, feels or tastes.
All that is in the realm of reality is
mind. Mind is God, absolutely good,
everywhere present, infinite in wisdom,
love and power, hence there can be no
matter. There is no room for it where
all space is filled with spirit. The
only conceivable place in which matter
can exist is in human belief, and that
belief a falsity, because it is based on
the assumption that there is in ex-
istence something else beside God and
His spiritual ideas. esprit is i'm
mortal truth; matter is mortal error.
Spirit is the real and eternal, matter is
the unreal and temporal. Spirit is
God and man is His image and like
ness hence man is spiritual and not
material" An understanding of this
scientific statement of being is both
the fulcrum and lever with which we
lift ourselves and others out of all sick
ness.
Christian science teaches that the
material or morta! man is bundle of
beliefs, an illusion, a shadow that ap-
peareth for a little while and then
yanisheth away.
THE MORTAL MAN,
however, is not the shadow of SUBJ
stance, as we have shown that sub
stance is spirit, and spirit alone can
reflect or express spirit; but he is the
visible manifestation of mortal mind
beliefs. What we mean by mortal
mind is the same as Pauls carnal
mind that mind which minds the
flesh, which is at enmity with God, is
not subject to the law of God; neither,
indeed, can be. This carnal mind
constructs in belief its own body, the
body rejecting or expressing its be-
liefs, on the principal Chat no UMPIRE
JUDGED man will deny), THAT as q
man thinketh in his heart so is he,
the external corresponding to the in
ternal. The material body is not
composed of accretions, but is the un-
foldment of what is within.
This man We hold to be the unreal
man, who in his beliefs commits sin,
suffers and dies, i. E., he passes out of
his present belief of materiality, but |
as all his beliefs of personality, the |
reality of matter in some form or other,
freedom of will and self-control are
not destroyed by what is called death,
those beliefs project another body on
the other side Gas it is called) cores
ponding to their nature, and will con-
tinue so to do until he gets such a
and understanding of his
real spiritual nature that mortality
will be swallowed up of life.
We indorse the sentiment of Long.
fellow:
"There is no death What seems so is tran
sition.
This life, of mortal breath.
but suburb of the life elysian.
Whose portal We call death"
Christian science teaches also that
back of, or with each mortal.. man, there
is the real spiritual mantle one
created in the image and likeness of
God. This man is not reflected or
by the material man, be-
cause matter can not reflect spirit any
more than a counterfeit coin can re-
fleet the genuine. 1t does claim that |
because of its likeness to the real to be |
the genuine, and while
THE COUNTERFEIT REMAINS
undetected, it will be as potent as the |
genuine coin, but as soon as its real
nature becomes known it is declared |
of no value, and relegated to its
original Dothingness, as having no ex-
in the realm of genuine coin. |
So when we by spiritual perception |
and understanding of truth get to
know that this mortal man is a coun-
terfeit, that he is not what he pre-
tends to be, he will in like manner be
to the realm of unreality, |
where he properly belongs, and
eventually, by the full understand.
ing of truth, this claimant of mans
real selfhood will become no more
than the baseless fabric of a dream,
which in truth he is, whether awake
or asleep. Such we hold to be the ulti-
mate::of universal mortal man, reached
either here or what is called hereafter,
and the oath of God confirms this
view. LAS / live, saith the Lord,
every knee shall bow to me, and every
tonuue shall confess te God" Inst a /